Chief Constable George Hamilton said police expected CCTV footage would be collected from the garage and forensics officers spent much of yesterday at the scene.

Mr Hamilton described the attack, believed to have been carried out by dissident republicans, as reckless and despicable.

"I would simply condemn this despicable attack, this act of recklessness at a filling station out on a public road which was riddled with high velocity gunfire when people were there to buy fuel, to buy groceries for their children's lunches," said Mr Hamilton.